Patents by Inventor Atsumi Ichikawa

Atsumi Ichikawa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7577485
    Abstract: The invention is intended to provide a building sequence planning system for an automobile production line, which can prepare an efficient building sequence. The system comprises an input unit (1) for inputting information of vehicles to be manufactured, a processing unit (3) for deciding an optimum building sequence based on the vehicle information inputted through the input unit (1), and an output unit (5) for externally outputting a building sequence schedule decided by the processing unit (3). The processing unit (3) prepares a vehicle building sequence, determines a degree of dissatisfaction of the prepared building sequence, as a penalty value, in accordance with restriction conditions which are inputted through the input unit (1) and are imposed when building the vehicles into work, and decides a building sequence with a minimum penalty by preparing a plurality of building sequences and determining the penalty value for each building sequence with respect to the restriction conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Onizawa, Masanori Sato, Kei Nakamura, Atsumi Ichikawa, Hiroshi Soejima, Shinichi Sakagami, Yutaka Sanada
  • Publication number: 20050182505
    Abstract: The invention is intended to provide a building sequence planning system for an automobile production line, which can prepare an efficient building sequence. The system comprises an input unit (1) for inputting information of vehicles to be manufactured, a processing unit (3) for deciding an optimum building sequence based on the vehicle information inputted through the input unit (1), and an output unit (5) for externally outputting a building sequence schedule decided by the processing unit (3). The processing unit (3) prepares a vehicle building sequence, determines a degree of dissatisfaction of the prepared building sequence, as a penalty value, in accordance with restriction conditions which are inputted through the input unit (1) and are imposed when building the vehicles into work, and decides a building sequence with a minimum penalty by preparing a plurality of building sequences and determining the penalty value for each building sequence with respect to the restriction conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Hitoshi Onizawa, Masanori Sato, Kei Nakamura, Atsumi Ichikawa, Hiroshi Soejima, Shinichi Sakagami, Yutaka Sanada